Word: houston
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...success of the students' club and its headquarters in Houston Hall seems to have inspired the Faculty to similar efforts on their own account; and the Faculty Club has just moved into a new building directly opposite the campus, where lunch rooms and other conveniences give hope that they may some time have as comfortable club rooms as the undergraduates. Two German plays are to be given in the city during the present academic year, under the auspices and for the benefit of the German department. They are given through the courtesy of Mr. Conried of the German theatre...
...Critical Study of Nullification in South Carolina. By D. F. Houston, Ph.D. '92, A.M., adjunct and professor of political science in the University of Texas...
...following extracts from some letters concerning Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania, which were printed in this paper two years ago should be of unusual interest at this time PHILADELPHIA...
...reply to your query as to the position the Houston Club occupies as a social factor in the university, it seems hardly necessary to say that the hopes of those who were interested in its establishing have been most fully realized. It has brought together all classes and departments, has centralized all, or nearly all of the organizations which the university supports--its athletic association, publications, religious and literary societies, besides affording meeting rooms for committees and classes. It has become in fact the centre of university life. It is confined to no special department of the university...
...movement for a building to meet the religious and social needs of the students of the University of Pennsylvania was inaugurated by the Y. M. C. A. of that university on December 18, 1892, at a mass meeting of the students. $6000 was raised by subscription and the Houston family gave the rest of the money necessary to erect the club building. The hall was opened on the second of January, 1896, and the club formed, all students and alumni being eligible for membership. The annual dues are but two dollars, and these fees, together with the income from...